How Maria Friedman and Jonathan Groff cracked the riddle of Sondheim's 'Merrily'

Jonathan Groff, star of the Broadway revival of 'Merrily We Roll Along,' and director Maria Friedman explain how they cracked Stephen Sondheim's problematic musical.

Broadway loves nothing better than a happy ending, and that yearning for redemption was richly satisfied by this season's standout production of “Merrily We Roll Along,” the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical that flopped when it premiered on Broadway in 1981 and has been desperate to prove itself ever since. That there hasn’t been a Broadway revival of the show until now tells you all you need to know about the musical’s traumatic history.

“And it was about George, Hal and him making this show — through the night, playing, singing, daring, dreaming, eating, drinking. I mean just everything you want when you’re young. The shock, the shock of the response they got when the show opened, they really couldn’t work it out.” “Merrily” begins at Frank’s swanky Bel-Air home in 1976. A hit movie producer, he's hosting a party full of Hollywood swells and hangers-on.

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